The imagery debate
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The imagery debate
（Representation and mind / Hilary Putnam and Ned Block, editors）（Bradford book）
MIT Press, c1991
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[155]-167) and index
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ISBN 9780262200868
内容説明
Michael Tye untangles the web of empirical and conceptual issues of the imagery debate in psychology between those who liken mental images to pictures and those who liken them to linguistic descriptions. He also takes into account longstanding philosophical issues, to arrive at an original theory that provides answers to questions raised in both psychology and philosophy. Drawing on the insights of Stephen Kosslyn and the work on vision of David Marr, Tye develops a theory of mental imagery that includes an account of imagistic representation and also tackles questions about the phenomenal qualities of mental images, image indeterminacy, the neurophysiological basis of imagery, and the causal relevance of image content to behaviour. Tye introduces the history of philosophical views on the nature of mental imagery from Aristotle to Kant. He examines the reasons for the decline of picture theories of imagery and the use of alternative theories, the re-emergence of the picture theory (with special reference to the work of Stephen Kosslyn), and the contrasting view that mental images are inner linguistic descriptions rather than pictorial representations.
He then proposes his own theory of images interpreted as symbol-fitted arrays in part like pictures and in part like linguistic descriptions, addresses the issue of vagueness in some features of mental images, and argues that images need not have qualia to account for their phenomenological character. Tye concludes by discussing the questions of how images are physically realized in the brain and how the contents of images can be causally related to behaviour.
目次
- Part 1 Imagery in the history of philosphy: traditional philosophical accounts of imagery
- critique of the evidence upon which the traditional accounts rest. Part 2 The decline of the picture theory in philosophy and the emergence of alternative views: philosophical objections to the picture theory
- the behaviorist view of imagery
- philosophical descriptionalism
- the adverbial theory and eliminativism. Part 3 The picture theory in cognitive psychology: Kosslyn's version of the picture theory
- the picture theory and the digital computer model of the mind
- the experimental evidence for Kosslyn's account
- the role of quasi-pictures in cognitive tasks. Part 4 Mental images as structural descriptions: structural descriptions and epiphenomenalism
- Pylyshyn's version of descriptionalism
- Hinton's view
- the experimental evidence for Hinton's view and the issue of tacit knowledge. Part 5 An alternative to quasi-pictures and structural descriptions: mental images as interpreted symbol-filled arrays: Marr's theory of vision
- a problem for pictorialist approaches to images
- objections to the theory that images are structural descriptions
- imagistic representation - my own proposal. Part 6 Image indeterminacy: philosophical arguments against the picture theory
- empirical data. Part 7 The phenomenal aspects of mental images: what are visual qualia?
- arguments for visual qualia evaluated - the argument from introspection, the argument from hallucination, visual qualia without representational content?, what it is that Shoemaker likes, blind "sight", the inverted spectrum, twin-earth, Peacocke's puzzle cases
- the significance of the elimination of visual qualia. Part 8 The physical basis of imagery and the causal role of image content: the physical realization of imagery in the brain
- identity versus constitution
- the causal role of image content.
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: pbk ISBN 9780262700733
内容説明
Michael Tye untangles the complex web of empirical and conceptual issues of the newly revived imagery debate in psychology between those that liken mental images to pictures and those that liken them to linguistic descriptions. He also takes into account longstanding philosophical issues, to arrive at a comprehensive, up-to-date view and an original theory that provides answers to questions raised in both psychology and philosophy. Drawing on the insights of Stephen Kosslyn and the work on vision of David Mart, Tye develops a new theory of mental imagery that includes an account of imagistic representation and also tackles questions about the phenomenal qualities of mental images, image indeterminacy, the neurophysiolgical basis of imagery, and the causal relevance of image content to behavior. Tye introduces the history of philosophical views on the nature of mental imagery from Aristotle to Kant. He examines the reasons for the decline of picture theories of imagery and the use of alternative theories, the reemergence of the picture theory (with special reference to the work of Stephen Kosslyn), and the contrasting view that mental images are inner linguistic descriptions rather than pictorial representations. He then proposes his own theory of images interpreted as symbol-filled arrays in part like pictures and in part like linguistic descriptions, addresses the issue of vagueness in some features of mental images, and argues that images need not have qualia to account for their phenomenological character. Tye concludes by discussing the questions of how images are physically realized in the brain and how the contents of images can be causally related to behavior.
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